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title: "ABOUT THE AUTHORS"
url: "https://ebooks.socialeurope.eu/7/austerity/114/about-the-authors"
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# ABOUT THE AUTHORS

*Greg Albo* is an associate professor at the Department of Political Science at York University.

*Sheila Block* is senior economist and a public commentator with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

*Alex Cobham* is an economist, chief executive of the Tax Justice Network and a visiting fellow at King’s College, London.

*Bryan Evans* is professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University and a member of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies.

*Lukas Haffert* is senior researcher in comparative political economy at the University of Zurich.

*Stephen McBride* is Canada research chair in public policy and globalization in the Department of Political Science, McMaster University.

*Moritz Neujeffski* is a PhD student and research fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

*Dieter Plehwe* is a research fellow of the Center for Civil Society Research at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

*Louis-Philippe Rochon* is an associate professor of economics at Laurentian University, in Canada, where he is director of the International Economic Policy Institute.

*Ingo Schmidt* is academic coordinator of labour studies in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies at Athabasca University.

*Jim Stanford* is an economist and director at the Centre for Future Work, Sydney.

*James Watson* is a PhD student at the Department of Sociology at McMaster University.

*Heather Whiteside* is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Waterloo.

*Thomas Fricke* is  chief economist at the European Climate Foundation, a columnist with the *Süddeutsche Zeitung* and chief economist at *WirtschaftsWunder*.